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MA Sociolinguistics

Institution:

University of Essex

Dept/School/Faculty:

Department of Language and Linguistics

Duration:

1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Entry Requirements:

2.1 or above in appropriate discipline; IELTS 6.5

Start Month(s):

October

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Graduate Administrator

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The University of Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions, ranked ninth nationally for research excellence following the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, December 2008).

Our Department of Language and Linguistics is one of the largest and most prestigious departments of its kind in the world, rated as producing the highest proportion of ‘world-leading’ linguistics research of any university in the UK in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, December 2008). Comprising 24 academic staff, we offer teaching and research supervision in: language acquisition, language learning and language teaching; culture and communication; psycholinguistics; language disorders; sociolinguistics; and theoretical and descriptive linguistics.

This course gives you the theoretical and analytical tools to understand and evaluate current work in sociolinguistics, and prepares you to undertake original research. We familiarise you with the foundations of contemporary sociolinguistics (language variation and change, discourse, multilingualism, ethnography of speaking) and offer modules in some of its most prominent sub-disciplines (variation theory, socio-pragmatics, conversation analysis, language contact, language and gender, and language rights). You gain first-hand experience of data collection and learn both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis.

Visit the MA Sociolinguistics page on the University of Essex web site for more details!

Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 Results

Unit of Assessment: Linguistics				What is the RAE?
FTE Category A Staff Submitted	4*	3*	2*	1*	U/C
16	25%	35%	25%	15%	0%

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